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Re: Columbus, Ohio afraid of its own troops

Pam, After looking at finding the source it should have been using google books enter "Lew Wallace an autobiography" Part Two. The story starts of page 629 and can be read online.

The following is a quote from Lew Wallace's autobiography

"We are in the habit of speaking and thinking of Andersonville as the acme of horrors; it may have been so, indeed, but of this I am certain, Camp Chase was next to it, the difference being that Andersonville was a Confederate hell for the confinement of enemies taken in arms, while Camp Chase was a hell operated by the old government for friends and sworn supporters - its own children."

If Union paroled prisoners were treated this way at Camp Chase, then could have the Confederate prisoners later on have been treated much better?

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